After visiting his children, Gawain, who arrived in the city of Iconium, announced that the Triflank Brigade and the cavalry artillery corps stationed around the city had braved the wind and snow and marched north along the Great Trade Route to Anglasburg. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The soldiers, who had just finished the Battle of Prussa, marched on the snow-covered ground and began to advance towards their destination, regretting that they had not been able to capture the bandit chief Tetisius alive before, and declared that they were determined to capture the cities of Amasya and Trabzon and "cut off the head of Theodorus, the traitor."

In the city of Amasya, the old general Theodoro sat with silver hair on his head, and there was a lot of white in the middle, and in front of him was a letter sent by Gawain, and when it was unfolded, it was a challenge written by Gawain himself, and the other party not only wanted to claim back Theodoro. The crown of lions on Gabrias' head also wants the whole of Amasya, Chardia, and Trabzon, for "the sun is once again full and no longer needs the stars to share its brilliance." ”

Theodoro shuddered a little, and he turned his eyes to look at the golden crown of mighty lions that lay further on the table. Unexpectedly, at the critical moment of the Battle of Philomeron, he was successfully provoked by Gawain and betrayed His Majesty the former emperor, but in the end, the biggest beneficiary of swallowing half of the empire was Gawain, this hateful Varyag barbarian with a copper face! Although he won Chardia and half of Paphragonia, his combined strength was reduced to less than one-third of the state of Tarsus.

Now Gawain had brought three of his most elite brigades to the northern front, and then joined up with the two brigades that had previously been stationed there, and that alone was superior to all his own military strength.

What's more, Gawain also has powerful artillery and cavalry, as a multiplier of strength.

"But I promised my wife, Marianne, that the men of Gabrias had sworn that they would fight to the end......" Theodoro pinched his brow with trembling fingers, and then he sighed and looked at the Black Madonna banner and the crimson armor hanging in his tent. After a while, he summoned the confidential officer and ordered, "I, together with the Trabzontuma Division and two peasant cavalry regiments, will hold the city of Amasya to contain Gawain, and I am also going to build a new castle on the other side of the Harris River, in case Gawain will pass through the New Caesarea Gate from Gangara to Pravel from the other side of the river, and enter Trabzon, my stronghold." Also, ask David for reinforcements......"

While the old general was painstakingly managing the defense of Amasia, Gawain suddenly rushed east with the three-wing brigade and handed over the defense of Anglasburg to Diognis again. Now he is at ease at all, and he will not be held back by any side at all, but can have a powerful field mobile force under the border people and the people's army system, which is enough to attack the city in all directions.

Gawain's real goal was the Teleboas River, which straddled Erezburg and the surrounding mountains, and when his brigade arrived there, it immediately began to build a rampart around the valley. Gawain then sent several orders to Marash, Samosata, Sassoon, and Amida to heal their wounds, the Grand Earls Merlot and Dorus. Lambert, Walter, and a group of Armenian nobles and officers who had returned to the army immediately mobilized the people and frontier people of these regions and blocked the mountains from Erez to Erzurum from all sides.

In the end, even the small Kurdish state of Haddadi responded to the call of the "alliance leader" Gawain and mobilized 3,000 foot cavalry to block the way out east of Erzurum, that is, Fort Tortomi at the key pass.

In this way, Merrick, the former imposing Great Emir of Danishmund, along with the Sagitus tribesmen, was sealed in the highest mountain in eastern Anatolia.

Even though Merrick was a hero who had always armed himself with the spirit of Turkic Ghazi, the nomads had to eat, and their livestock needed grass to survive.

And this year's wind and snow are even bigger than last year's.

Before that, Merrick was like a crazy beast, with his men and the emir of Sagitus, Saltuk. Ali joined forces and fought against the border people stationed in Sebastian with Gawain, with the Armenian armies such as Hercules and Gabriel, who were loyal to Gawain, with Theodoro and David in Chaldia in the north, and with the Hashdi kingdom in the east.

Merrick's bowstrings had been broken countless times, because he knew that if he couldn't break through this winter, Gawain wouldn't give him a third winter.

Unfortunately, Merrick's men suffered too much loss and blood loss after their previous desperate battles with Gawain, so they tossed for a full year, and the brave and skilled Great Emir of Danishmond could not make it out of the deep mountains......

Now the blizzard had come, and it was particularly brutal and cold in the valley, and the cattle of the Danishmunds had lost their source of fodder, and they died in large numbers, and most of the dome tents were completely crushed, and then the tribesmen continued to die.

In desperation, Merrick appealed to the kingdom of Kirat Pasha, which occupies Lake Van for help, hoping that they could contain them to spend the winter on the four sides of the largest freshwater lake in the plateau. In return, the haughty Merrick is willing to be a pawn and a mercenary to help Pasha Za Gritdin. Ibrahim and various other warlords vied for control of Isfahan's court.

Zagridin readily agreed, but Hercules led the Yefandouni Brigade and occupied the castle of Ayernut on the main road, cutting off the connection between the kingdom of Kirat Pasha and Merrick, and constantly repelling Merrick's breakthrough attacks.

Merrick in the snow and the remnants of thousands of people had turned into ghosts—and now, Gawain's three brigades were coming in again.

In a desperate situation, Merrick and Saltuk decided to make a final life-and-death fight to the east, that is, Fort Toltomi.

"You must not be like a frozen animal, and Gawain will look at the corpse and laugh at it."

However, the 3,000 Hashid soldiers stationed in Toltomi's fort actually possessed a full 800 long firearms, of which 300 were from Gawain's previous support, and 500 were quickly copied by them in the forges in Ani City. In addition, Tortomi is a hill fort designed by Armenian engineers, with walls and towers spiraling up the mountainside, breaking the lower level and continuing to climb the cliff to attack the middle level, and then there is a large stone fort on the top level that is guarded independently.

The Turks of Danishmond and Sagitus were constantly being fired by rows of guns under the city walls, and the corpses of men and horses were piled up in the blood-soaked snowfield.

A few days after the siege, heavier winds and snowstorms swept in, and the besieging army, lacking food and clothing, and without medicine at all, died like a swarm of flies in winter.

Eventually, Merrick himself took up his sword and attacked the city, but his mount was killed and his own abdomen was shot, and the Great Emir could not bear the pain and despair of the wound being infected and festering. And whoever kills himself with poisoned wine will drink poisoned wine all day long in Hell - I am a Ghazi, or is the previous way of death and depravity more suitable for me. ”